Tel-Chai Nation

Author David Barton is taking a trip to Armenia, and wants everybody to know why the Christian movement has to show solidarity with Armenia:

Later this month, I will travel to Armenia as part of a delegation of American Christian leaders. By historical consensus, Armenia is the world’s first Christian nation, having adopted Christianity in AD 301, more than a decade before Constantine’s Edict of Milan that granted religious liberty to Christians and others across the realm.

Over the centuries, Armenia has preserved its Christian faith through hostile enemy invasions, forced conversions, and even genocide. Despite being surrounded by autocratic regimes and militant ideologies that directly contest its survival, it has maintained its original faith.

In 2023, the world witnessed the forced displacement of over 120,000 Christian Armenians from their ancestral homeland of Artsakh (widely known as Nagorno-Karabakh), which had long been a self-governing democratic entity within the international borders of Azerbaijan.

The removal of these Christians was the result of a brutal blockade, military assault, and systematic campaign of ethnic cleansing by despotic Azerbaijan, backed by authoritarian Turkey. Sadly, the world’s response to this attack on freedom, religious liberty, self-government, and the right of political self-determination was largely silence.

As Scripture reminds us, “If one member suffers, all suffer together” (1 Corinthians 12:26). Armenia’s suffering must be our concern, not only because of our shared faith but because Armenia’s fate determines whether ancient Christian civilizations will be allowed to survive in an increasingly hostile neighborhood.

Azerbaijan currently holds dozens of Armenian political prisoners, including former political and religious leaders and journalists. It has demolished centuries-old churches, bulldozed cemeteries, and attempted to erase every vestige of the region’s indigenous Christian heritage. What it cannot destroy is often defaced, and border communities in southern Armenia live in constant fear of violence.

Our trip is organized by Save Armenia, a U.S.-based coalition of Christian and Jewish leaders. We draw global attention to these current threats and offer meaningful solidarity to Christians and Jews living in a perilous region. In the aftermath of recent ethnic cleansings, Save Armenia has mobilized support to protect Armenia’s sovereignty, advocate for justice, and raise awareness among American faith communities and policymakers alike.

Our itinerary is both spiritual and strategic.

We will visit displaced families who have lost everything yet remain deeply rooted in faith, and we will hear the voices of a people who have suffered for their faith yet never abandoned it.

Read the rest. If serious Israelis really care about the danger of Islamofascists invading their land, that's why they can't stand by silently while Azerbaijan's do such a thing to another. And while it's atrocious that Armenia's government is kowtowing to Iran's, that doesn't mean we should let that get in the way of justice. Especially when there's Azeris who've made faustian pacts with Iran too. So again, I wonder how much longer the propagandist Rachel Avraham is going to continue her useless, repellent charade? She deserves condemnation, and serious Israelis on the right in particular must speak up.

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